Review: ‘The Receptionist’ Can’t Help You Today
A stale revival of Adam Bock’s cog-in-the-office-machine dark comedy lacks specificity and bite.
A stale revival of Adam Bock’s cog-in-the-office-machine dark comedy lacks specificity and bite.
Today’s new Travalanche posts for May 10, 2026 are about The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition (150 years ago today), the Pacifist Origins of Mother’s Day (Happy Mother’s Day!), and t…
KENREX: A True Crime Thriller Written by Jack Holden & Ed Stambollouian Composed by John Patrick Elliott Performed by Mr. Holden & Mr. Ellott Directed by Mr. Stambollouian Lucille Lo…
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (2026 Revival) Book, Music and Lyrics by Richard O’Brien Directed by Sam Pinkleton Studio 54 Official Website Reviewed by David Spencer I’m too old and I’ve seen …
Pump Boys and Dinettes is a rowdy, actor-powered musical in Golden.
BEACHES: The Musical Book by Iris Rainer Dart & Thom Thomas Music by Mike Stoller Lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart Based on the Beaches novels by Ms Dart Directed by Lonny Price and Matt Cowar…
As the pioneering BalletBoyz company celebrates its 25th anniversary and Billy Elliott returns to the stage, the male dance landscape appears transformed from where it was at the turn of the…
Lowry, Salford The tale of a Burnley businessman who gives his town a financial leg-up overeggs the north-south cultural divide, but Pippa Cleary’s bright musical numbers propel the positi…
Connaught theatre, Worthing Balloons meet the sharper points of competitive parenting over a weekend of back-to-back kids’ parties, in this broad comedy of social mannersSome of my most tr…
Southwark Playhouse, London Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s revenge drama has plenty of rug-pulling twists, but stilted presentation leaves little sense of jeopardyAs a revenge fantasy between a f…
Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show Elaine Paige on Sunday. Now that nominations are out for the 2026 Tony Awards, Pa…
150 years ago today (May 10, 1876) saw the launch of the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine in Philadelphia, generally shortened to the Centen…
The Pulitzer-winning, 2026 Tony Award nominated Bess Wohl play bowed on Broadway earlier this season.
The Savannah Bananas began when one couple emptied their bank accounts for a dream: to add joy, fun and ultimately singing and dancing to baseball. 11 years later, it's an entertainment jugg…
Could there be a better name for a child performer than Mary Small (1922-2007)? Small was a second generation vaudevillian, born and raised in Baltimore. Taught to sing from earliest childho…
Decades before it became a commercial opportunity for card shops and florists, Mother’s Day was conceived by Julia Ward Howe (“Battle Hymn of the Republic”) as a female-driven holiday …
The Broadway Theatre Review: August Wilson’s Century Cycle Resonates with Spiritual Force at the Barrymore The sound of a guitar being gently strummed is what draws me in, but it is the fe…
There are singers and there are songwriters….then there is Melissa Manchester — one of the increasingly rare artists who fully inhabits both worlds with elegance, intelligence, emotional…
DAZZLING DOG DAY — I went this week to see Dog Day Afternoon and just adored it. John Bernthal was simply stunning; yes, he was doing a bit of Pacino, but clearly making the play his ow…
A look at Broadway during the pandemic
“Costume Art,” the Costume Institute’s spring 2026 exhibition opening tomorrow, six days after the Met Gala celebrated it, isn’t what it may sound like. It pairs some 200 garments an…
off-Broadway – Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Academy of Music – Harvey Theater: 651 Fulton Street. April 19-May 17, 2026. Tragedy. Author: William Shakespeare. Director: Robert Hastie. 2 hrs, 4…
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The moment Sydney James Harcourt steps into the spotlight as Rum Tum Tugger in CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL, the temperature inside the Broadhurst Theatre rises. The audience screams and fans cla…
Hear Justin Matthew Sargent's powerful, showstopping performance of "Gethsemane." Jesus Christ Superstar April 17 - June 7, 2026 The Goodspeed, East Haddam, CT Learn More: https://www.goods…
Shows get revived for all kinds of reasons. Maybe they were under appreciated in the past. Or they may have something particularly relevant to say about current events. A director may have…
Culture awards of all kinds have been steadily losing their currency over the past decade. So what's going on?
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This post does triple duty: 1) it’s World Collage Day; 2) we’re a week out from International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia and we’re a couple of weeks out from the …
Today’s new Travalanche posts for May 9, 2026 are about: Lucy Sante and Her Collages, the life and music of Billy Joel, and the late playwright Robert Heide. Earlier Travalanche posts for …
ABT Studio Company is performing the iconic GRAND PAS CLASSIQUE and much more at NYC’s The Joyce Theater, May 13-17! Tickets are selling fast—get yours now at abt.org 🎥: Kiera Sun re…
This won’t be a review of the recent two-part HBO “documentary” Billy Joel: And So It Goes (2025) per se, apart from the fact that I saw it recently and became aware of several aspects…
Broken Snow starts with a young, scruffy-looking guy rummaging around a dilapidated winter cottage. He has rumpled clothes, a furtive air, and no apparent concern for the continued survival …
Lorin Wertheimer finds that even with some conceptual missteps, this haunting new play grapples effectively with grief. The post Review: Love Story at the Tank appeared first on Exeunt Magaz…
Here are the nominations for the 79th Annual Tony Awards (2026). If you would like to read our predictions for this year, please subscribe to our Substack, @PagesOnStages Best of luck to all…
By David Dow Bentley III “The People’s Critic” On this MOTHER’S DAY Weekend,,, … and with all due respect to Stevie Wonder, “I Just [ Write ] to say, I LOVE YOU!” In the proces…
Watch last year's West End LIVE performances: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGxBE7qhxgFqn83sP7jrwvk9BHU7yPTR3&si=pKzsZ9Uiyb6FmnSV Official London Theatre is the number one site to get …
We also break down some surprise inclusions (Richard Thomas in The Balusters) and shocking omissions ("Tempress" Chasity Moore in Cats: The Jellicle Ball).
If you missed the spectacular THE CHER SHOW on Broadway a few years back, or even the popular two-year national tour that followed, fret not. Because now you can see it all, complete with le…
The film that’s been adapted into a new musical created a memorable aesthetic with its cast and outfits. Its ideas about the nuclear family also made it a movie for its time.
Downtown playwright Robert Heide (Robert Heitke, 1934-2025) passed away back in December (thanks for the alert, Eve Golden); as I often do, I opted to wait until the decedent’s next birthd…
Mother's Day weekend is here, and if mama can't provide you a Broadway-tastic Mother's Day, then BroadwayWorld sure will! To celebrate the special day, we salute some of this Broadway seasos…
The Broadway Theatre Review: A fact-based drama of isolation and narrative control, driven by performance and shaped by uneven execution By Ross Time does not move the same way for everyone,…
“The midcentury architecture is fascinating. It’s also a place where I’m outside almost every waking hour of the day.”
The writer Pamela Redmond talks about her new play, “Old Woman Naked,” why her kids won’t see it and whether she’d have done the show without GLP-1s.
This week, Double-EGOT winner Bobby Lopez joins us to talk about the 15th anniversary of Book of Mormon, and panelists Hari Kondabolu, Roxanne Roberts, and Mo Rocca say a tearful farewell to…
As the son of thespian royalty takes on Peter Shaffer’s ‘Equus’ at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Patrick Smith meets the celebrated stage actor to discuss Bond, the perils of being cal…
Seven years ago, I saw The Hello Girls at 59E59 Theaters and immediately fell in love with it. Today, at the star-studded concert presentation at Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Jerome Robbins T…
It’s the most compelling question of the evening, when someone asks whether you would love a family member differently after discovering an unbearable truth about them. The idea unwinds ou…
The Girl from the North Country (CNN)